Compering An Event Quotes & Sayings

It is only in times of great and grievous dullness that the believer regards prayer as a duty, and not as a privilege. — Adolph Saphir

Marketing and advertising are incredibly exciting and creative functions. They are central to the creation of brands and to the creation of sustainable competitive advantage for companies — Jim Speros

But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns are a lot more open. — Genevieve Gorder

I started quite young at school, compering a charity event at an old people's home. I would do stand up and impressions and enjoyed the laughter. It's very addictive. It's a lovely sensation to say something and hear a whole room laugh. — Armando Iannucci

I'll always want him. Until every sun goes dark in every sky, until I am nothing more than long-forgotten cosmic dust, I will want him. And even then I suspect my particles will long for his. — Ann Aguirre

In his thoughtful and complex style of analysis, Hitler continued on to note the following: "Since the newspapers in question did not enjoy an outstanding reputation ... I regarded them more as the products of anger and envy than the [representation] of a principled, though perhaps mistaken, point of view." In the lines above, we see Hitler begin to wrestle with anti- Semitism, flatly reject religious anti-Semitism as unworthy of Austrian cultural tradition, and suspect that the arguments of the anti-Semitic press and gutter pamphlets were exaggerated beyond credibility by too much subjective and too little objective and principled argument. The view of virtually every Hitler biographer that he based his anti-Semitism on arguments derived from the gutter press and pamphlets of Vienna does not hold up in the face of the words above. To the contrary, we see Hitler take the measure of that literature.

--Hitler: Beyond Evil and Tyranny, pp. 103-104 — Russel H.S. Stolfi

When the International Space Station is finally launched, it will be fitted with special nickel-hydrogen batteries weighing a total of several tons, with a lifetime of just five years, requiring spares to be brought up from Earth at literally astronomical expense. — Charles Platt

One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God. — Frederick Buechner

You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to. — Romola Garai

A journey of a million miles, always begins with a single step — Melissa Mercer

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape. — Voltaire

The leader's role is to define reality, then give hope — Napoleon Bonaparte

It would be amazing to play Sylvia Plath. She was so dark, and what came out of her writing was troubled and fierce. The dimensions, levels, layers and levels would be incredible to take on. — Evangeline Lilly

Two-thirds of professionally managed funds are regularly outperformed by a broad capitalization-weighted index fund with equivalent risk, and those that do appear to produce excess returns in one period are not likely to do so in the next. The record of professionals does not suggest that sufficient predictability exists in the stock market to produce exploitable arbitrage opportunities. — Burton G. Malkiel

If we climb this high I swear we'll never die. — John Steinbeck

We've got to establish a socialistic economic structure that will limit private, profit-oriented businesses. — Jane Fonda